Bottle carrier



G. V. BURT.

BOTTLE CARRIER.

APPLlCATION FILED SEPT-Z2, 1920.

1,436,23, Patented Nov. 21, 1922.

Patented Nov. 21, 1922.

entree eraras meant GLENN V. BURT, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

BOTTLE CARRIER.

Application filed September 22, 1920. Serial No. 411,948.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GLENN V. BURT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Bottle Carrier, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a bottle carrier, particularly adapted for use in connection with milk bottles, while not necessarily restricted to this use.

An important object of the invention is to provide a .device of the above mentioned character, having a lock element, so arranged that it is moved upwardly toward the looking position, by the upward movement of the hand in the act of lifting the device.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device embodying my invention, viewed from the sides thereof, and,

Figure 2 is a similar view viewed from the end of the same.

My device or carrier embodies a pair of approximately U-shaped members 5 and 6, which may be formed of wire, or other suitable material. The members include lower jaws 7, to Whip the bottle neck upon opposite sides thereof, and upstanding arms 8 and 9, are carried by the jaws. The arms 9 are bent between their ends into a horizontal pivot portion 10, pivotally receiving coils 11, bent in the arms 9, as shown. I

The numeral 12 designates a pair of hand grips, which may be formed of wood or the like, and having openings 13 formed in their ends, to receive laterally bent ends 14, the upper portions of the arms being preferably sunk into the material of the ends, to prevent the ends from turning, upon their longitudinal axes.

The numeral 15 designates a vertically movable locking element, extending horizontally longitudinally of the device, beneath the hand-grips. The locking element 15 has its ends bent into eyes 16, slidably receiving the arms 8 and 9.

In use, when the locking element 15 is in the lower position, Figure 2, the jaws 7 are swung to the open position, for the reception of the neck of the bottle. The aws are then closed by swingin the hand-grips 12 toward each other. Tn the act of picking up the carrier, the fingers'grasp the lock-element 15 and thereby raise it, to the position shown in Figure 1, and the lock element will position by fricnected approximately U-shaped members having upstanding arms, handles connected with the upper ends of the arms, and a vet tically movable locki element arranged longitudinally beneath t e handles and slidably engaging said arms.

2. A bottle carrier of the character described, comprising a pair of pivotally con-F nected approximately U-shaped members having upstanding arms, hand-grips secured to the upper ends of the arms, and a locking element arranged longitudinally beneath the hand-grips and having eyes slidabl receiving said arms. Iii testimony whereof, I have aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GLENN V. BURT.

Witnesses:

Mrs G. V. BURT, Mrs. M. L. Srtmre. 

